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When I first selected Journalism as my Elective class I would be challenged in ways I had never experienced in the conventional classroom before. After a full year of the class, I found that while this was demonstrated to be true, the real challenge came from learning how to channel my self motivation and intrinsic passion as opposed to external pressures like harsh due dates and grading. I have never before in my life been given the opportunity to write about my passions and interests for a grade

views and behaviors, evident from the vast amount of research that started as soon as television and other sources became available in households worldwide. Mass media constitutes anything that helps reach a mass audience such as television, newspaper, radio, social media, and even video games. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a mass medium as “a medium of communication that is designed to reach the mass of the people – usually used in plural,”. From building a dependency on mass media, to

Fear is everywhere in our lives and people deal with fear in many ways. People either let fear control them or they take action and don't let fear overtake them. All these stories the class read all talk about fear and how fear took control over the people. Fear is something very important made by nature because it challenges people every day. Nadime Gordimer’s “Once Upon a Time” John Galsworthy’s “Japanese Quince” and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” show how

Mass Media: Development and Literacy Daniel Bedregal HUM/186 12/04/2017 Allyson Wells Mass Media: Development and Literacy Mass media has had many changes in our history beginning with the printing press in the 1400’s up to today. The most drastic changes have occurred within the last century. These changes have influenced American culture in many ways. They have also changed the way we live everyday of our lives. In the last century there have been many developments in the evolution of mass

today is political cartoons. Prior to the television becoming a mainstream medium, political cartoons constituted the majority of political comedy. This power stemmed from the fact that political cartoons were often presented in print media, such as newspapers and magazines. As print media has fallen out of demand, however, political cartoons ceded their position to late-night comedy shows. This is not to suggest that political cartoons cannot exist in a TV-dominated society; rather, that a bit of its

As time was advancing so was the brains seen in todays society, and even tough, journalism couldn’t be pin pointed to one person’s success I believe that there is two very important people who play a big part in too why media is the way it is today. One being contemporary to today’s journalism, and the other, being pioneering. I have chosen to look Lord Northcliffe or otherwise known as Alfred Harmsworth and Rupert Murdoch. Alfred Harmsworth 1st Viscount Northcliffe was the eldest child of Alfred

corporation, Hearst Communications, which at its height of prevalence owned over 30 American newspapers, 18 magazines and several radio stations. William Randolph Hearst’s privileged upper class upbringing was a significant influence and factor in his rise to prominence in the American media during the late 19th and early 20th century. Before being expelled, Hearst was inspired by Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World newspaper and worked as an editor for the Harvard Lampoon at Harvard university. At age 24, his

Newspaper reporting is all about finding stories that will appeal to readers. Journalists try to uncover the real situations and problems that affect those readers and write the truth. What if writers were forbidden to write these articles? It may sound like something that could never happen in America, where citizens’ freedom of speech is protected, but the reality is that it is happening. In schools around the country, student newspapers are being censored and their stories yanked out or manipulated

voters, set the behavior of the candidates, and the public agenda. Since the 1950’s the newspaper has been the number one source of receiving information. But this is no longer the case, sales of newspaper in households have gone down, while the population has gone up. This means that 20% of national papers is now in less than 8% of households (Greenslade. 2011). Whether or not you still read the newspaper, they are usually biased. This traditional source of media is an important ingredient in the

Clare Boothe Luce spoke out to a group of journalists to make her statement on the press. The time Luce’s speech was presented, it was 1960; a much different time from how press runs today. Back in the sixties, press was presented in the form of newspapers or by word of mouth, whereas today press appears on a computer screen. In Luce’s speech she states, “It is- to use the big word- the pursuit of and the effort to state the truth.” (L.39). This statement concludes that the author views the whole